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Slumscraper: Projects, Journals & Ideas

9 Projects 31 Journals 2 Publications 1 Competitions

About Discussions Projects9 Journals31 Publications2 Competitions1

Slumscrapers represent a design approach that engages with informal settlements and economically disadvantaged urban areas. Rather than demolition or displacement, this work explores adaptive reuse, community-centered development, and architectural strategies that serve low-income populations.

The community examines projects ranging from container housing in Mumbai's Dharavi to social housing integrated into European cities, alongside theoretical explorations of commodification, labor, and urban equity. Work includes conversions of existing structures into mixed-use spaces, eco-friendly housing solutions for urban poor communities, and architectural interventions that prioritize inhabitant needs over market-driven development.

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Nazifa Subha3 works

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Nazifa

Eco-Homes: Enhancing the Urban Poor of Sattola

Eco-Homes redefines housing for Dhaka’s urban poor proposing modular, affordable homes built from recycled concrete and salvaged materials, 22% cheaper than conventional. With an Anti-Eviction Grid that prevents displacement, plus courtyards, rooftop farms, and community-led design, it’s a sustainable, dignified model ready to be replicated worldwide.

Rishabh

Container Skyscaper at Dharavi, Mumbai

The Design is seeking to explore and investigate the possibility of a relatively adequate temporary housing solution for dwellers of the densely populated Dharavi, area ? a city within a city. The design or concept should be one that is inspirational and of high quality tall construction using used-shipping containers as building modules.

Lorenzo

Awakening the Proletariat

The lower working class labors (Proletariat) are attracted to a city for their hard work in return for a living. This living soon becomes a struggle for Survival... The thesis looks at alternative solutions to slum development, in order to foster the existing habitats into a 'society of the city'. The interventions are formulated in 3 development modules.

Vardhan

De-commodifying People

De-commodifying People: A Transgressive Approach to Social Housing in Mumbai. The project aims to explore the critical need to shift our perspective on housing from a commodity to a fundamental human right, especially in the context of Mumbai's social fabric.

Hussein

Rethinking Urban Slums

This project proposes a new vision for addressing Iraq’s informal housing crisis through a realistic, human-centered approach. Rather than demolition and displacement, it promotes incremental, in-place interventions that empower residents, address social and economic challenges, and create a sustainable model for inclusive urban development.

mohamed and mohamed

learning from cairo

It became a fact that it is not only impossible to remove the existing informal areas, but also to very hard to control reduce the growth rate of these areas: this is the ugly truth. Therefore, it became an urgent matter to study and research these slum areas and try to fix the problems on a larger scale with the available resources: the bare minimum.

Shizuka

VOICES IN THE BLUEPRINT

This thesis reimagines Bhola slum in Dhaka through affordable, incremental housing rooted in community needs. A masterplan of low-rise clusters, shared facilities, and revitalized waterbody integrates density, adaptability, and livelihood, creating a dignified, sustainable, and replicable urban model.

ANSHUL

EARTH-SCRAPER " AN UTOPIAN HABITAT

New ideas have evolved in the architecture, that recognise today's issues caused due to mass urbanisation, which are designed in a way that they help to build a better future. The project is an attempt to show the SURREAL design idea which can deal with the problems of mass urbanisation, climate change, lack of land in city for future development.

ANSHUL

Earth-scraper - An utopian habitat

This thesis project is an attempt to show the SURREAL design idea which can deal with the problems of mass urbanisation, climate change, lack of land in city for future development and to shatter the paradigm of Human perception for an underground space. The design challenge addresses to Myth and problems faced by an underground space architecturally.

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